CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The NFL, more and more, is becoming a passing league. And those passers are getting younger and younger. Gone are the days of waiting on young quarterbacks before throwing them into the mix.

"Such thinking is so last millennium. When the NFL season begins in a few weeks, roughly one-quarter of the league's 32 teams, give or take, figure to be led by quarterbacks in their first, second or third years."

The Browns, of course, are one of those teams considering a rookie starter. But they aren't alone.

"In the past few days, Blake Bortles in Jacksonville and Teddy Bridgewater in Minnesota, rookies both seemingly destined to open the season on the bench, have played well enough in the preseason to potentially change plans in both cities."

Browns head coach Mike Pettine is expected to announce on Tuesday if the Browns will follow the trend of skewing younger at the game's most important position.

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